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Sunday, 4 November 2012

Meseberg - oh schönes, erhabenes Zauberschloss am Huwenowsee!

Forever and
a day, M had been telling me stories about Meseberg, glorious Meseberg. ´We
have to go and visit´, he would say. ´I want to show you Meseberg and the
Huwenowsee (Lake Huwenow). There isn´t anything nearly as beautiful and sublime
anywhere north of Berlin´… or in the northern hemisphere, for that matter. Last
September - eleven years after M´s last visit - we finally made it to the
baroque manor or Herrenhaus in the
Mark Brandenburg (65 kilometers north of Berlin) that Marcus ´Biene´ Fedeler,
M´s friend, ´discovered´ in the winter of 1992, a little over two years after
the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the time, Meseberg was abandoned and in bad
shape. But M was enchanted. He did several oil paintings of the crumbling Schloss, he wrote an article for a
national newspaper (containing a gripping journalistic portrait of Major Ludwig
von Kaphengst, Meseberg´s wild and mysterious owner in the period 1774-1800),
and many a times he would walk on the wooded shores of Lake Huwenow, going for
swims in the summer and taking in the gorgeous views all year round. I now have
become a witness to Meseberg´s beauty and am beginning to understand what it
was that spoke to M´s soul when he first laid eyes on this forlorn yet
magnificent place. And forlorn it is no more: since 2007 M´s Zauberschloss serves as the official
Guesthouse of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Did someone
get inspired by M´s tales, articles and paintings?

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Hello! I am Julia, Colombian and married to my best friend, M. This is my blog about our day-to-day life, nature conservation, photography, long walks and conversations… and basically all the things I am passionate about. I hope you enjoy these bits of our life - Thanks for stopping by!